By eight the corral was snoring with arrieros and I ascended to my substantial couch.
The meat was soon brought together, and several of the men assisted the arrieros in packing it.
The Indians had fallen upon an atajo near the crossing of Fra Cristobal, and murdered the arrieros to a man.
For two days the mules were rested while the arrieros passed the time in keeping mildly drunk.
It was a zigzag trail apparently cut in the face of an almost perpendicular cliff, and the arrieros took the pack-train down in sections, so that, in the event of one mule stumbling, it would not bump half the others over the edge.
In the middle of the lone street the arrieros were busy lashing our smaller packages in rawhide nets.
Our two remaining arrieros rode in the rear, muffled in their gaudy woolen ponchos.
The arrierosdismounted and pried him on his feet again, and patiently he hit the trail.
The two small arrieros left us here and returned to Quilca, for the chief difficulties were passed, and the rest was but persistent plodding over the desert to San José.
Rodriguez pastured the outfit somewhere up the valley until it was again ready; then one day the arrieros were busy weighing the packs, balancing them and lashing them in the nets of rawhide for the easier packing and adjustment.
Often the arrierosimitate its vicious hum, and it will frequently prove sufficient.
Daily we haggled with arrieros over pack mules or rode to their corrals in the precipitous suburbs of the city and between times there were the odds and ends of a big outfit to be filled in and the commissary to be stocked.
The arrierosforaged among the huts for cebada for the mules and a chicken or some eggs for us, but the Aymarás either had none or else surlily refused to sell, but there was fuel and with that a fine hot tinned dinner was prepared.
When we halted for a hasty bite by the side of a cold brook, Rodriguez held the whole pack-train and the arrieros close by, and did not allow them to go ahead, as on the day before.
All the arrieroswere dead; two chests still remained on the edge of the precipice; the Captain looked hurriedly around.
Before the door of the venta several dragoons, picturesquely grouped, and about twenty in number, were saddling their horses while the arrieros were actively engaged in loading seven or eight mules.
A few minutes before sunrise, the soldiers and arrieros prepared to load the mules, and prepare everything for the start.
The soldiers and arrieros gave a sigh of relief, and stopped at once.
By this time all were astir in the camp, the arrieros were rubbing down and loading the mules, while the troopers were saddling their horses and making all preparations for a start.
The arrieros bore the hammock, with Don Louis still asleep, into the cabildo.
Valentine remained for an instant stupefied by this good news, after the catastrophe which the peons and arrieros had announced to him.
The arrieros and the peons had not been long in following their example.
The peons and arrieros had returned from the ceremony, and expressed the greatest terror on learning what had taken place during their absence.
The sky became overcast--thunder was growling angrily in the distance, when we overtook a drove of mules, the arrieros urging them at speed down a valley to escape the fury of the impending storm.
The Indian who was driving the animal neglected the usual warning cry, given by the arrieros when they enter those dangerous passes, and he was regardless of my repeated calls desiring him to stop.
The last-named articles are purchased chiefly by the arrieros of the coast.
When any strange object scares them, the flock separates, and disperses in various directions, and the arrieros have no little difficulty in reassembling them.
The arrieros consider bleeding a cure for this malady.
Formerly the arrieros used annually to bring droves of several thousand mules through Bolivia and the Peruvian Sierra, selling as many as they could on the way, and taking to Cerro de Pasco those that remained unsold.
Their blanketed arrieros ran beside them and prodded, and were in turn prodded by the fretful Murguía.
We should have been compelled to camp in the open with the arrieros had not the parish priest invited us to rest in the cool shade of his vine-covered arbor.
We were able to clear our arrieros of any complicity in the theft.
Our arrieros were unwilling to cross it in the daytime.
Our arrieros avoided the little towns, and selected a camp site on the roadside near the Finca Rodadero.
It may be imagined that the arrieros packed very slowly and grudgingly, although the loads were now considerably reduced.
It sounds simple enough but it took no end of argument and persuasion on the part of our friends in Arequipa to convince these worthy arrierosthat they were not going to be everlastingly ruined by this bargain.
At first astonished to see how much tea the Indian arrieros drank, I learned from sad experience that it was far better than cold water, which often brings on mountain-sickness.
The arrieros denied the accuracy of his observations.
After Mr. Tucker finished his triangulation of the lake I told the arrieros to find the shortest road home.
We hoped it would reach Vitor about the same time that we did, but that was expecting too much of arrieros on the first day of their journey.
The arrieros began to complain loudly, but did what they could to relieve the mules by punching holes in their ears; the theory being that bloodletting is a good thing for soroche.
As soon as the timid arrieros reached a point where they could see down into the canyon, they spotted some patches of green pasture, cheered up a bit, and even smiled over the dismal ignorance of the "guide.
The nearer the travellers approached, the more lively the landscape appeared; at each instant they met horsemen, arrieros with their mules.
The Mexicans recommenced their journey, with the exception of four or five who remained with us and our arrieros and servants.
And Tzapotecans and women, arrieros and servants, ran about in the utmost terror and confusion, with cries of "Vamos, paso redoblado!
There was scarcely any communication with the capital, the diligences no longer ran, and even the fearless arrieros (muleteers) declined to set out.
The courtyard was full ofarrieros and carriers, brawling loudly; the master of the house was fighting with two of his customers, and universal confusion reigned around.
It was well that heat agrees with my constitution, otherwise it would have been impossible to effect anything in this season, when the very arrieros frequently fall dead from their mules, smitten by sun-stroke.
Their husbands and sons are far differently employed: for they are a nation of arrierosor carriers, and almost esteem it a disgrace to follow any other profession.
The only signs of life to be met with were the long strings of arrieros with their droves of mules, and an occasional Indian hut, with a few miserable half-naked women and children.
The arrieros had forgotten the name of Cuincho, and not knowing where to go, had stopped here the previous night, knowing that, we were bound for Pascuaro, and must pass that way.
The family was already at work, the arrieros wending on their southward way singing savage fragments of song; for like the Arab the rural andaluz sleeps full-dressed and springs instantly from bed to labor.
The chance betrayal of my nationality aroused in the arrieros a suggestion of wonder and even an occasional question.
I climbed into the bin and slept soundly until the cursing of arrieros harnessing their mules aroused me shortly before dawn.
With these and a pair of mountain arrieros I gossiped until my eyelids grew heavy, and turned in on a husk mattress spread, like that of my hosts, on the kitchen floor.
Suddenly a sound of horses was heard outside, and two men trotted into the patio, through the gateway left open after the departure of the arrieros and other travellers.
By this time they had reached the beach, when the arrieros having claimed their horses, not forgetting a liberal payment for their use, the party returned in shore-boats to the ships.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arrieros" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
